50 Account of the Botanic Garden at Seharanpur. [Feb. 



success has been so complete in so many instances, that, within certain 

 bounds, hardly any difficulties appear insurmountable. 



Fruits. 





Trees. Flowers. 



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Oak. 



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 Horse Chesnut Primula. Delphinium. 



Fir. 



Blackthorn. Viola. Aconitum. 



Dogwood. 

 Maple. 



Juniper. Clematis. Thyme. 

 Yew and Box. Anemone. Gentian. 



Service tree 



, Buckthorn. Potentilla. Hypericum. 



Holly. 



Spindle tree. Geum. Spiraea. 



Myrica Sapida. Cherry. 

 CoriariaNipalensis. Apricot 

 Berberis Asiatica. Pear. 



Aristata. Apple. 



Juglans Regia. 

 Rubus, 3 sp. 



As the climate of the hills bears the nearest resemblance to that of 

 European countries, the transition is easy, from a consideration of the 

 former to those of the latter ; and the success would, I conceive, be 

 most extensive, but in this place so remote from the sea, the means of 

 obtaining European plants are few, and seeds in a vegetative state 

 arrive but seldom : but the introduction of the various European 

 kitchen vegetables, the naturalization of many of the flowers, and the 

 suscessful cultivation of many medicinal plants, afford the most rational 

 prospect of the eventual success being only limited by the means 

 afforded of insuring it. The horticultural catalogue exhibits the names 

 of the several vegetables which are successfully cultivated in the Seha- 

 ranpur climate. The medicinal one will point out others, while among 

 flowers may be enumerated sweet-brier, wall flower, heart's ease, several 

 snapdragons, mignionette, mallow, &c. 



In proceeding westward, in the latitude of Seharanpur, the first 

 countries of which it would be desirable to acclimate the productions 

 are Persia, Arabia, and Egypt ; and as there is considerable resem- 

 blance between their Botany and that of the Upper Provinces of India, 

 and as some of their fruits have already been introduced, while others, 

 as well as many of their vegetables and useful productions, are the same 

 as those of India, I have no doubt, that a considerable proportion of 

 their valuable products, as asafoetida, ammoniacum, myrrh, galbanum, 

 &c. might be naturalized at Seharanpur, where the coffee tree flourishes, 

 and the senna is produced in the fullest perfection. 



In examining the genera in Pursh's Flora of North America, and 

 those of Mexico, in Humboldt's Synopsis, a very considerable resem- 

 blance will be found to exist with those of the Seharanpur catalogue, 

 of which the plants are chiefly such as are indigenous near Seharanpur, 

 or in the hills : hence it may reasonably be concluded from this Bota- 

 nical analogy, similarity of temperature, and in one case from identity 

 of latitude, that little difficulty will be experienced in cultivating the 

 useful productions of both countries, either in the Seharanpur or Masiiri 



